Any org viewing ASNs as a scarce resource is wasting money keeping ASNs. Any org that financially broken will probably not continue to pay it's bills in the long run. I believe these are the exception and not the rule. Like I said, the long-term answer to this is 32bit ASNs. I don't think hoarding will account for a significant portion of the ASN space in the long run. Owen --On Friday, November 19, 2004 6:48 AM -0600 "J.A. Terranson" <alif.terranson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:28:55 +0100, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:18 +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
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On 2004-11-16, at 02.24, Owen DeLong wrote:
ASNs issued today are subject to annual renewal. While this is a small charge and doesn't go up based on the number of ASNs, so, not 100% effective at reclaiming all unused resources, it does, at least, reclaim resources in use by defunct organizations that are no longer paying the maintenance for them.
Yes, but what about the (dozens, hundreds?) of entities that are hoarding (and renewing) ASNs? These unused resources are gone forever - since they are seen as a scarce resource, they are kept artificially alive (even though the orgs know full well there is neither a use nor a justification for them).
//Alif
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